Jorge Méndez Blake

Born in 1974, in Guadalajara, Mexico
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico

The work of Méndez Blake takes references from diverse cultural environments with the attempt to create previously non-existing connections between literature and architecture. He creates non-linear systems of ideas that begin with literature classics, architectural history or diverse fiction related themes. The constant reviews of well known authors, different architectural works or specific cultural situations, attempt to create new interpretations of the sociocultural landscape, and with them, a wide spectrum of possible lectures that connect an author, text or building with new contexts. The ideas behind the way we construct or order our society’s cultural heritage are reconsidered and examined under new circumstances, as space, geography, constructed landscape or language.

Reproduction of the first chapter of Das Kapital intervened on a single page, underlining the Shakespeare’s phrase that entitles the work on a different paper than the rest (a type of paper named in Mexico “Revolution paper”)

Reproduction of the first chapter of Das Kapital intervened on a single page, underlining the Shakespeare’s phrase that entitles the work on a different paper than the rest (a type of paper named ...

Writers Luis Felipe Fabre and Brenda Lozano were commissioned to write a text that included one piece on the collection and the phrase “The marquise went out at five…”. Take away copies were display in the bookshelves for the visitors

Writers Luis Felipe Fabre and Brenda Lozano were commissioned to write a text that included one piece on the collection and the phrase “The marquise went out at five…”. Take away copies were ...

The Marquise Went out at Five…

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2010

Exhibition views

Exhibition views

The Marquise Went out at Five…

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2010

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

The Marquise Went out at Five…

Continuity of the Patios, 2010, mdf, paint, dimensions variable

Series of models based on two works from the Tamayo Collection,: In the Patio V by Georgia O’Keefe and Broken Glass by Jean Mauboulés

Series of models based on two works from the Tamayo Collection,: In the Patio V by Georgia O’Keefe and Broken Glass by Jean Mauboulés

The Marquise Went out at Five…

Avalanche (Empire), 2010, gravel, dimensions variable

Based on Wolfgang Tillmans’ photograph Empire (Avalanche), part of the Tamayo collection, but not on the exhibition

Based on Wolfgang Tillmans’ photograph Empire (Avalanche), part of the Tamayo collection, but not on the exhibition